Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-08-10
BADGER NEWS.

Wnen U06 Team ran away. lie CHUNG
to the lines and was dragged through
two fences. A large splinter from a
fence board was driven into his abdO-
men, The surgeons removed sixteen
pieces from the wound. Hecannot re-
cover.
The Eau Claire manufacturing es-
Establishments utilize over 4 900 horse
power and employ nearly l,12O men.
The land Case of the Minneapolis
non-sulted on. the 9Th. Mr.. Brown,
OF st. Paul, and Judge Sloan, OF Mad
ison, appeared for the plaintiff, and
Messrs. Keenan, and Flanders. of Mil
waukee, for the defense.
A BRAKEMAN named Ryder was
killed at Fountain City on the 9th, by
being caught and crushed between the
cars. He was unmarried and had no
known relatives thereabouts.
A CONFERENCE of Catholic bishops
was held at La Crosse to arrange for
the creation of two new sees In Bishop
1reland's province.
THE Ashland News says the Made
line and Apostle Islands have been
visited by more people the past month
than for many years before. The old
church and historical painting at La
Pointe have excited the wonder and
admiration of vast number OF peo-
pie from ali portions of the land.
JUSTICE STEINLEIN, o. La Crosse, has
married LOO couples during his Of
fetal career OF seventeen years.
Turn ,,oy,,11o4ioy, Of oh -, God
by the school census at 1000.
ELEVEN hundred men are employed
in the work of rebuilding Marshfeld.
JAMES P. WARNER has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Hollinshead,
Price County.
A SON of Thomas Smith, of Willow
Springs, La Fayette County, fell from
a horse and was kicked to death be-
fore he could be rescued.
from the Madison Turn Verein, has
been recovered in a Chicago pawnshop,
where it was sold for $3.50.
The printers of Ashland and Wash
burn have organized an association
to be called the Bay Printers Club Of
| Chequamegon Bay-about twelve in
number. Its object is social amuse-
ment.
WILL MCKENZIE and Ella McCollins,
of Lancaster, went to a picnic. When
they returned they were husband and
wife. Lancaster society is agog over
the ''elopement," as the marriage is
there termed.
ARTHUR FISCHER, aged 4 years, was
! drowned in the basin OF the Second
Ward fountain, Milwaukee, on the
4th.
! A 7-YEAR OLD daughter of George
Gilbert, farmer living near Eau
Claire, was criminally assaulted by
az unknown man who avoided ar
rest.
MILWAUKEE has another new mill
| tary company.
THE dead body of g. woman was
taken from the lake at the head OF
Juneau Avenue, Milwaukee, on the Sd.
The woman was apparently about
so years Of age, German, aud poorly
dressed. She was seen sitting on the
! breakwater some time before. she
could not be identified.
A NUMBER or important criminal
cases have been disposed of at the
present term OF the circuit court at
Ashland. Charles Wells, charged
with murder, was convicted Of assault
and sentenced to two months impris-
onment. John Black and Patrick
Welsh were found guilty of burglary
and sentenced to two years imprison,
ment each In the state prison at hard
labor. Frank Heible, of Hurley,
charged with granddaughter, was con-
victed and goes to jail for q term OF
five years.
! PLANS for crematory, submitted
by an architect in La Crosse, have
teen accepted and money raised for
the construction of the building. It
will be erected in lakewood Cemetery,
$3.50 feet, OF solid stone, with halls,
| galleries, reception rooms and base
| ment furnaces. Two hundred La
Crosse people are pledged to the doc
trine or cremation, and their remains
will go through the furnace, which will
be completed next fell.
NEWS has been received at Madison
| OF the death at Jacksonville, Fla, of
EleaZer Root. Death was the result
of fall. The deceased .was virtually
the founder of Carroll College, and it's
first president. He was O. mem
Der OF the constitutional conven-
ton of Wisconsin, the first super
intendent of public instruction
OF Wisconsin, staying four
years, g. member OF the first Board of
Regents of the Wisconsin State Uni
versity, and as g. member purchased
in his own name the grounds now used
by the university, intending if the
Board of Regents would not buy them
for a site for the university, to keep
them for prlvatepurposes. For many
years he has been rector of Trinity
Church at Jacksonville. He was IS
years of age.
HE Great Lakes Steam Shipping
Company has been incorporated. The
lncorporators are III. S. Benjamin, G.
+. Rand and VIM. J. Turner. The